CROIX-DU-BAC BRITISH CEMETERY​​​Nord

​France

Steenwerck is a village approximately 5 kilometres south-west of Armentieres and a similar distance north-east of Estaires.

Croix-du-Bac is a hamlet 3.5 kilometres south of Steenwerck. Leave Croix-du-Bac on the D10 and head south east. The Cemetery is 1 kilometre from the church on the right hand side of the D10.

Visiting Information

The location or design of this site makes wheelchair access impossible. ​

Historical Information

The cemetery was begun in July 1916 and used by field ambulances and fighting units until March 1918. On 10 April 1918, Croix-du-Bac was in German hands but was retaken by the 23rd Lancashire Fusiliers on 2 September, and a few further burials were made in the cemetery in October.

After the Armistice, Plot I was completed, and Plots III and IV formed, by the concentration of 328 British graves from the battlefields and from the German Plot (II); the German graves were removed to other cemeteries, as well as one Portuguese grave.

There are now 554 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 263 of the graves are unidentified, but special memorials commemorate 140 casualties known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains two French war graves.

From Croydon, NSW. Brother of Mrs Ida Goodayle of Framfield, West Uckfield, Sussex, England. A labourer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Star of England (A15) on 8 March 1916. He died of wounds on 3 August 1916 in France, aged 29.